The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-22
SOUTHERN eL.EANlNes.


The heaviest rain in several months fel
at San Antonio, Tex, few days ago
lasting about two hours Reports from
the south and west are to the effect that
the downpour in these directions was
/ greater than there. The rain will have
the effect Of causing grass to begin grow
! ing, though it was not of sufi cient D
portions to fill the dry water holes or
start creeks or branches that have been
dry for months.
The Georgia Pacific railroad between
i Columbus, Miss, and Birmin CHAM is COM
pleted. 1t is stated that this road will be-
gin building westfrom Columbus at once,
connecting with the Greenvilie (Miss)
branch The completion Of this road gives
Columbus direct route to all Northern
! and Eastern markets
The new cotton council, which inaugu-
| rated the strike in New Orleans is gradu-
ally melting away. The Weighers As
| sociatiOn and the Classers and Samp piers
/ Association, the latter having a member
| ship of about five hundred, have with
| drawn from the new council, which is
now composed of only white cOtton-rollers
| and screw men. Cotton is being moved
as fast as sold, and the backbone of the
strike may be considered as broken.
While attending tenn porarily to the
| mOlding planer at the factory of the
| Cool d dye-Ramsey Manufacturing Com
pany at Helena, Ark, few days ago,
Mr.. c. H. Coolidge, one Of the partners,
| lost his footing and was participated to
! the boiler-rOom below, sustaining very
! serious injuries. One leg was broken in
| three places. The thumb-nail of the left
| hand was torn off. Besides, he had sew
| eral contusions of painful nature.
A tug with a pleasure party on board
| overturned near New Orleans a few days
| ago, and young lady, Miss Barton, of AL
| giers, was drowned.
W. H Gigger, who shot and killed Cap
tain Higgins at Carthage, Tenn, was ac-
quilted on the ground of insanity.
| H. G. Griser, a farmer Of Bossier Parish,
La, was shot from ambush a few days
ago, while blowing in a field. His ten
| vear-Old son was the only witness of the
| crime, the perpetratOr of which made his
| escape.
| Mr.. Miley Groves, aged seventy years,
! and Miss Laura Wallace, aged nineteen
| years, both of Robertson County Tenn,
/ were married at the home of the brides
parents, near Edgefsld Junction, a few
! days ago. The bridegroom presented his
| young wife with $1,000 as a bridal pres
| ent.
! An old man named Jesus Cambria, OF
| Laredo, Tex, who is sometimes troubled
| with ms me fits, strayed from his home
| in the lower end of the town a few days
| since, and walking down the street, fell
! from the brink of the Arroyo Zacata, a
| deep canyon, and was instantly killed.
! Columbus, KY, was visited by a slight
| earthquake shock few mornings since.
| There was slight tremor, accompanied
| by a milling sound like distant thunder
| A second shock took place later, with
| stronger vibrations and also a rumbling
sound swaYing buildings very percepti
bly,.
The Prohibitionists of Texas will
/ hold State convention at Dallas on May
! 4, and John Hancock will state his views.
Three months later the people will vote
4 on the temperance amendment.
! Isaac Pappenheimer, peddler from IN
/ dianapolis Ind, was murdered, pre-.
sumably for money, between Tullahoma
! and Beech Grove, Tenn, few nights ago,
| by some unknown person. His head was
! crushed with club.
Near Greenville, Ala, few days ago
a negro went away after locking his five
children in the house. When he returned
! there was a smouldering ruin with five
! charred bodies In its midst.
One of the immediate results of the In
! ter-State Commerce law is the shipment
| of large amounts of -four and grain for
| expectation to New Orleans by way OF
the Mississippi river
The girls at Covington, Ky, have or
ganized a boycott which involves non
association with young men who get
drunk. The girls have introduced whai
| no man had wit enough to devise-a boy.
colt that is both expedient and lawful.
Messrs Butcher Oliver and associates
Of the Southern Oil Company have pur-
| chased tWenty-fCur acres of land at the
! junction of the Memphis & Charleston and
Kansas City railroads. 1t is their pur-
pose to at once erect cottOnseed mill
and refinery. The price paid for the
grounds was S25 500.
A mob from Middlebrook Va. organized
to lynch two colored incendiaries who
were taken to Staunton few days since.
| The authorities having learned of the
| movement of the mob, sent the prisoners
TO Harrisonburg. The mob went to with.
in few miles of town, and learning of ths
| removal of the prisoners, dispersed.
Editor John Woodhouse, of the Con-
cord IN. c. Register, died suddenly a few
| days ago of an apOplectic stroke. He was
a native of new Jersey, and was about
sixty years old. He was officer in a
New Jersey regiment during the late war.
! Eleven years ago he removed to Concord
and establis he'd the Register. He was
| highly esteemed as a citizen and litor.
Ov1r the signature fof 'Jud ye Lynch"
one Of the Yorkville Is. c. lynchers pub
fishes in the Daily Register a manifesto to
the people of South Carolina in justifica-
tion of the recentlynching of five negroes,
murderers, at YOrkville, because of lax
methods of administering justice to MUIR
| derers in the State courts, and threaten
ing further lynchings in event of juries
falling to perform their duties.
Asfaltas, one of the candidates for the
! Kentucky Derby, while being exercised
at the race track a few days ago, ran into
/ the fence, throwing his jockey, Charles
/ Taylor, and trampling him to death. The
/ horse was so badly injured that it was
/ found necessary to kill him. Taylor was
| mulatto, twenty years old, an d was one
! of the best known jockeys in the country,
/ and was to have ridden Jim Gore, one OF
| the favorites in the Derby.
The village of Farnham, Richmond
/ County, Va, was almost entirely de.
stroyed by fire a few days ago. The town
is situated about seven miles from Sharp's
! wharf, the Rappahannoclk. Among the
i heaviest losers are E. l. Moseingo, F. Mo
| seingo and r I. Rsyn nolds. The old
| Protestant Episcopal Church, built in
| colonial days, and one of the Oldest houses
\ Of worship in the country, was burned.
Selma, Ala, is to have new park.
/ Eben 5. Stearns, chancellor of the nj
versity of Nashville and the Tennessee
/ Normal College, died at his residence in
! Nashville a few days since, aged seven tv-
/ five years. DR.. Stearns has been in bad
I health for many years. He had been a
| great sufferer, but he died without a
/ struggle.
The little eight-year-old son Of Mr.. John
! Coonro1, who resides in Bonham, Tex.
was kicked on the head b. a horse a few
/ days ago and was instantly killed. The
/ boy had been sent to drive the horses
! from the yard, and on going too close to
/ the heels of one Of them ne received the
I fatal kick.
Bud Williams, a mGrder rer, was lynched
/ by an armed mob at Ripley, Miss.
Keisy Williams was hanged at Friars
! Point, Mss. on the 18th inst,-fOr the MUIR
l der OF a sothar negro n3m9i Kiqg W ley
I ii July last Williams and Wiley were